How To Send an Email in Yahoo Mail

This is a beginners tutorial that covers the basics of composing and sending an email using the Yahoo Mail web browser client.

You will Learn:

How to compose and send an email

How to address an email, including sending to multiple addresses.

How to to send using the cc and bcc fields correctly

How to send HTML or plain text email

How to send email with an attachment and attachment limits.

etc

Sending an Email -Steps

1. Login to Yahoo mail. You should see a compose button underneath the main menu bar.

Click the compose button, and a new message form screen appears.

The message form consists of an address field, subject field and message body as shown below:

A few things you should notice about the message form

There is scroll bar next to the from address field. This
allows you to choose the sender address as it is possible to
have multiple email addresses/accounts associated with a Yahoo account. The default email address appears (this can be set as part of mail settings).

The cc and bcc lines are not shown by default, but you can turn them on by clicking the cc links to the right of the to line (very faint). Once you click the cc link you will see an option to show the Bcc line

You can type email addresses into the to, cc or bcc lines manually with addresses separated by a comma, or use the contact list by clicking the blue to,cc or bcc links on the left.

There is maximum limit of around 100 recipients per email message and applies even if you use a Contact List.

You should notice that as you type Yahoo will suggest email addresses from your contacts and also from email addresses that you have previously sent email to.

You should enter a message subject in the subject field. If don’t you will get a warning when you try to send the email.

Even though you can send an email without a message subject it isn’t good email etiquette and it may get blocked by spam filters.

The total message size including attachments is limited to 25MB, but you should note that although Yahoo allows this size of message, it may be blocked by other carriers.

You can also add basicHTML styles (bullets, links etc.using the menu at the bottom.

On the far right of the menu are two arrows pointing to the left.

If you click on this the email reverts to plain text and theHTML formatting menu disappears.

You can change the text size of the sent message by clicking on the text icon.

Tip -Hover your mouse above the menu bar icons to see what they all do

Click send when ready, and the email will be sent.

If there is some form of error in the message e.g. no recipient then you will get an error message, and the option to edit the message.

Sent messages are usually stored in the sent folder (this is an option in settings)

If you don’t want to send the email straight away click way from the message, by clicking the inbox icon (for example), and the message will automatically be stored as a draft message or use the keyboard short cut CTRL+S.

You can locate the email in the drafts folder at a later date, edit it and then send it.

NOTES:

Cc stands for carbon copy : Anyone listed here will get a copy of the message and anyone who receives the message will know who else the message was sent to.

Bcc Blind carbon copy: Anyone listed here will get a copy of the message but anyone who receives the message will not know that the person(s) on the Bcc line were sent the message.

It is recommended that you always use this field when sending messages to confidential mailing lists

Lists: A list is a group of email addresses.They are useful when you frequently need to send email to many people at once. When you send an email to a mailing list the system will automatically send the email to each member of the list .

If you want to keep your list membership private then send to the list using the Bcc field.

A- Yahoo uses an encrypted connection for your browser which protects you when logging in to yahoo, and reading and composing emails. However when you send an email that email is not encrypted. See understanding email encryption.

Q- I’ve sent an email to someone by mistake can I get it back?

A- No- once you have sent it you cannot recall it.

Q –Can You add an image to the signature.

A- No

Q –Can You add a link to the signature.

A- Yes See example above.

Q-What if I use a desktop client like Windows live mail as well as the web based client?

A- You will need to configure a signature in the desktop client

Q-What if I use the Yahoo mobile App on Android or IOS as well as the web based client?

A- You will need to configure a signature in the App as well.

Q- I want to send to multiple recipients without them knowing. How do I do it?